Merck’s 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica is a comprehensive and authoritative reference work that served as an essential guide for physicians, pharmacists, and medical professionals at the turn of the 20th century. Compiled by Merck & Co., one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, this manual provides detailed information on the properties, uses, dosages, and preparations of a vast array of medicinal substances, chemicals, and therapeutic agents available at the time. The manua...

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Their Fate Was Written in the Stars. Can It Save the Future?In 2200 BCE, a crew from the distant planet Golan crash-lands on the Salisbury Plain, forever altering Earth’s future. Descendants of the aliens carry their advanced knowledge through the ages. In 2035, virologist Ada Sendall battles a global pandemic and learns about a mysterious reference to the Ghost Flower—believed to have cured a British village during the Black Death. The discovery sets her on a journey across time.

The Sexual Subject brings together writing on sexuality which has appeared in ^Screen> over the past two decades. It reflects the journal's continuing engagement with questions of sexuality and signification in the cinema, an engagement which has had a profound influence on the development of the academic study of film and on alternative film and video practice.The collection opens with Laura Mulvey's classic "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" with its conjunction of se...

In "Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica," the reader is introduced to an essential compendium of pharmacological knowledge that meticulously catalogs the medicinal properties of various substances. Utilizing a precise and systematic literary style, this text serves as both a reference and a guide, emphasizing the therapeutic uses and potential interactions of drugs, reflecting the burgeoning advancements in pharmaceutical science at the turn of the 20th century. The manual's context ...

Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica is a compact yet remarkably comprehensive reference work cataloguing the drugs, chemicals, preparations, therapeutic indications, and dosages known to turn-of-the-century medicine. Its style is terse, systematic, and utilitarian, reflecting the late nineteenth-century transition from traditional materia medica to modern pharmacology. Situated in an era before antibiotics, insulin, and many regulatory safeguards, the volume preserves the therapeutic...

Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica is a compact, alphabetized pharmaco-therapeutic compendium that inventories late nineteenth-century drugs, chemicals, and botanicals with their synonyms, preparations, doses, and cautions. Written in a terse, telegraphic style optimized for the pocket and the dispensary bench, it distills contemporary physiological actions, indications, incompatibilities, and antidotes, alongside practical tables and measures. Situated at the cusp of modern pharmac...

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In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience.

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At a time when "sexy" can be an adjective for anything, when sexual awareness is declared to be advancing faster in months than in the past half century, and when pundits warn of sexual overload, the actual representation of sex is still deemed confrontational, aggressive, "in your face." While critics accuse the academy of an obsession with sexuality, they also complain that nothing that appears to refer to sex really does.In readings ranging across film, drama, opera, fine art, an...

In this series of provocative essays on culture, art, and film, former Screen editor Mandy Merck explores the paradoxes of sexual representation. Whether writing on romantic fiction or hardcore pornography, on robots or sex goddesses, Radclyffe Hall or the Marquis de Sade, she finds the perversions and deviances. Illustrated.